CAIRO: Egyptian human rights activist Asmaa Mahfouz said on Sunday she received death threats from ousted president Hosni Mubarak's sympathizers, saying they will kill her and kidnap her mother if she doesn't stop her activism. Mahfouz did not seem to give much weight to the treats and asked followers to not pay much attention to it, however she told al-Dostor news that she is filing a police report against those who threatened her. She wrote on her personal Facebook account that the threat was signed by a man called Ahmed Spider, a Mubarak sympathizer who appeared on a number of talk shows during the revolution, questioning its legitimacy. Spider shared a doctored photo of Mahfouz with a noose around her neck with a comment that said “Mahfouz should face the death penalty soon.” “Spider is too little to do anything and he is merely a front of the Muabark gang,” Mahfouz wrote on her Facebook page Sunday. She added, pleading with her followers and friends, to not “publish related things as the issue had taken more than it deserves,” and called Spider a “vain” person and called on people to “focus on whats important.” BM
